It's a wee cheap logitech one (logitech B110). Only cost about £5. It's weird though, everything was working fine and then it just randomly started freezing. If I can't get it sorted I might just wipe my comp and start from scratch.

Is no one able to help with this at all? I know no one is obliged to or anything, and all help is freely given out of people's selfless generosity, so I'm not complaining... but that's 2 weeks and I'm still no closer to solving this myself, and I so badly don't want to go through re-installing OS and getting everything the way I like it again for something that is probably really trivial to fix.

Sorry if this was the wrong section. It almost certainly isn't a hardware problem since the mouse works fine on my other computer (work computer running windows), but I thought Hardware Support was probably still the right place.

There's nothing jumping out from the details you've given as a likely cause for the mouse freezing you are having. When your mouse freezes, how long does it freeze? And are you sure it is actually the mouse that is freezing and not your computer? Have you tried press Alt+F2 for example, to call up the run dialog--to test that the computer and keyboard work when the mouse freezes.

If you are convinced it is only the mouse that freezes, and not in fact your computer, try a different mouse. Yes I know this one works fine with Windows. Golly. Use it on Windows then Just use a different mouse for a while to rule out it being a problem specific to this model mouse...

I'm almost annoyed about this... the mouse from my other computer is working fine

Seems it was just a case of switching mouses. I feel a bit silly not thinking of that, I had been using the same mouse on this computer for months without any problem, so I just tried it on the other computer to make sure it still worked, never thought to try a different mouse on this comp

cele wrote:I'm having the same issue with a SteelSeries Sensei mouse.If I unplug it and plug it in again, it works, but it is annoying like hell.

The truth is mice fail, that's just all there is to it. Now I have owned about twenty mice over the years. Sometimes yes they do freeze up on an intermittent basis. In Windows XP I can unplug a frozen USB mouse then plug it back in again and it works. With Linux Mint same deal. My rule of thumb with cold-blooded mice that like to freeze is this. If it happens once a month, forget about it, just unplug and replug. A hassle, yes, but once a month. If it happens all the time then throw that mouse in the garbage can already.

I really prefer PS/2 for mice and keyboard, simple and firm connection, and I wish more motherboards had 2 PS/2 ports instead of just 1 like my current motherboard. I can't remember when a PS/2 device ever froze up. Ever.

Just dual booted my first linuxmint 64 kde os and am experiencing somewhat of the same thing; when I do stuff in windows and boot back into linuxmint it fails to pick up my mouse, I simply reboot again and that fixes the problem. I'm very impressed with this os and see this as a good starting point for learning about linuxmint thereby weaning myself off of windows.

akbillj wrote:Just a bit of an update with the mouse thing, I simply took the usb plug and placed it in a different port and so far so good, the mouse (logitech m325) is found every boot now!

Color me a USB skeptic. I don't think inoperable mice are necessarily the fault of Linux or Linux Mint, but rather spotty hardware support in the motherboard itself. I've had problems, not with Linux, but with Windows XP not recognizing mice after booting up. Unplug, replug, and then suddenly the mouse is alive again. What's up with that? Well, I don't blame Windows, and I wouldn't blame Linux either. Sometimes I have to reboot before the OS recognizes the mouse again. In general, I do prefer the mouse to be connected via PS/2 port.